The Cold War was fundamentally a technical and scientific war, fought
over technical secrets, by technical means. It had a major impact on
practices and institutions of science, technology and medicine, and on
relationships between the state, the academy, military and industry in
the latter half of the twentieth century. Much scholarship on Cold War
science and technology has focused on nuclear and space sciences in the
United States and Russia. But as newly opened and increasingly accessible
archives around the world make clear, the Cold War was a global battle
that drew on and shaped many systems for the production of natural
knowledge. Cold War sciences included oceanography, agriculture in
Africa, anthropology in Brazil, pathology in Japan, mathematics in Canada
and public health in India. Indeed, the vast consequences of this war for
knowledge production in many fields and many locations are only now
becoming clear.

This workshop, to be held in the Department of the History and Sociology
of Science at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, will bring
together graduate students, recent PhDs and faculty for an intense
two-day presentation of papers and discussion of critical issues. With
support from the Penn Research Foundation, we can provide some travel
funding. We will also arrange low-cost or free accommodations for all
graduate students attending, and provide lodging for all those who are
giving papers. We are modeling this meeting on the Joint Atlantic Seminar
for the History of Biology: Graduate students, recent Ph.Ds, and junior
faculty will give papers, faculty will comment.

Organizing committee: M. Susan Lindee (Dept. of History and Sociology of
Science, University of Pennsylvania); Mark B. Adams (Dept. of History and
Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania); Manfred Heinemann
(Center for the History of Education and Science, University of Hannover,
Germany); Nikolai Krementsov (St. Petersburg Branch, Institute for the
History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences); and John
Krige (Center for Research in the History of Science and Technology, La
Villette, Paris).

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